Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sneak Peek At The Robot Master Field Guide

Hot on the heels of the Amazon leak, Udon Entertainment has officially announced the Mega Man: Robot Master Field Guide for March 2011. Spanning across 144 pages, the book contains profiles of various classic series characters, friends and foes. Official press release and some sample imagery below!

"Toronto, ON – Nov 11, 2010 – MEGA MAN is beloved the world over as one of the most recognizable icons of gaming. However, it’s not just the blue bomber himself that fans love, but also the seemingly endless stream of evil robot bosses who try to stop Mega Man from foiling Dr. Wily’s nefarious schemes. Some may be mind-controlled pawns, while others are bad to the core, but they are all Robot Masters!

The MEGA MAN: ROBOT MASTER FIELD GUIDE is your ultimate handbook to the classic Mega Man universe. Inside you’ll find profiles of every major Mega Man® character, including all the Robot Masters from Mega Man® 1-10, Mega Man® and Bass, the Mega Man Gameboy series, plus important special characters like Proto Man, Rush, Roll, Duo, and more. Each profile features classic CAPCOM® artwork, and includes bios, quotes, likes & dislikes, weapons, and of course each Robot Master’s secret weakness!

Looks like it's Mega Man Network's wiki, in book format. Not much incentive to buy it then except for perhaps the high-res art. I do wonder where they pulled the quotes from for characters who didn't have any though. Just made them up probably.

Meh. In the moment it looks like just a copy and paste of the MM&B database with the addition of MM9 and 10 characters, and probably others like Cossack and Reggae. But as it says it may change, the final version may be interesting.

Capcom of America should check the contents instead of just copying it from other sources, or else there may be mistakes like Light being a douchie, Ballade stupid, among others... like when Capcom announced the MM10 fan-game (now called Mega Man Unlimited) instead of the original MM10!

Glad to see so many of you are looking forward to this! I'm excited to be working on it, as usual; I'm really glad Matt came up with such an awesome idea in the wake of the recent Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia. :)

I'll do my best to bring you all a polished book you all are proud to own!

I'm sad that there's people that think owning this information in book format is useless because one can find this info online. It kind of makes me hate the digital age, to an extent. Now they even have these e-books or whatever? I'm sorry, but for me, nothing can replace a good book made with paper and ink.

Also, as Jeff said... I'd love a Mega Man X Maverick Field Guide, in addition to this book, as well.

Please be quiet and respect for their opinions. Every time I see you post something people question you have complained to them ? It's annoying how you post complaints about their opinions. JUST GROW UP!

@Matt: It very much hurts the validity of this book to simply use things from the wiki.

Now, I know that Heat Man originally wrote those profiles based on the Japanese sourcebooks, but since it is still a wiki that's free to edit by anyone, do we have any guarantee from MMN and Udon that these profiles are indeed correct and unedited, straight from the original source?

@Zan: No worries. Capcom US and Japan also have to approve of the final content.

If you are not a fan of the bios though, you can always ignore them. Originally the book was not going to have any text content beyond the basic name, #, weapons, weakness, creator. But it felt like it needed a little more content than that. :)

CoA is so lazy to search and translate from original sources, they will probably say Wily is Light's assistant and that the Bad Box Art Mega Man is the real one from the main continuity, while Mega Man and Rockman are spin-offs! XD